Canadian Astrophysicist and Cosmologist Dr Redouane Al Fakir chose Qatar to announce a historic mission that aims to put the Islamic world again at the frontiers of science.

Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA.ir), To give the Muslim world a space program of its own, the Vancouver-based Muhammad Institute for Space Science will announce in Doha a space mission that will land a scientific station bearing the name of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) on the surface of the moon in 2013.

“A space program is something that is inevitable for all the nations today. It gives countries a voice and also brings in foreign investment.

That is why countries like India invest so much in space programs despite having millions in poverty. However, the Muslim nations are today lagging behind in space programs,” said Dr Al Fakir, Director and CEO of the institute.

Dr Al Fakir’s initiative for the moon station comes as a response to the attacks against Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). “We had planned to send a telescope into orbit by 2015.

It was then these attacks came and we needed to show the world that what the prophet had really strived for. Hence we started a new-bigger project — Muhammad Moon Station I,” he told The Peninsula.

Through the project, Muhammad Institute aims to honor Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) for his role in the birth of rational scientific explanation that led to scientific discoveries during the golden era of Islamic civilization and ultimately to modern science as we know it today.

@ Aerialcat on July 1, 2010 at 2:05 pm:
If they somehow manage (I think hiring a Western/Russian/Chinese contractor would do). They’ve certainly got the money for it and even if they did make it, it would still be just a stunt.

And how many Muslims live in poverty because of their own rigid adherence to a Dark Ages dogma? What a waste of money! All Islam has given Humanity is a legacy of hate and intolerance, all they have left is an inflated sense of self importance and a deluded, skewed view of their place in the world.
Muhammad (Pork Be Upon Him) isn’t around to help them get to the moon, but if they do get to the moon with help from others, hopefully they’ll make some valuable discovery – like perhaps the moon is made from pork, not cheese.

Back in the Dark Ages when they named alcohol. They still didn’t know what it was. So they went off and started alchemy, trying desperately to turn lead into gold. That didn’t work too well either, so they gave up on science.

Let’s consider this Mosque on the moon thing. The first point that comes to mind is these guys pray facing Mecca what is it five times a day? Regardless, while the moon rotates on its axis at the same time it’s rotating around the earth, and that’s where Mecca is. Won’t these guys need to adjust their positions in the Mosk throughout the day. Really! Think about it. Pray the wrong way, miss Mecca and Abdul has wasted a trip to church. They really ought to get with Nasreddin Hodja before they gas up the rocket.

Yes, 5 times a day. They also aren’t allowed to defecate in Mecca’s direction.

Funny thing though, moskes are the only places of worship that have toilets. You won’t find them in churches, synagogues, temples, etc. But you find them in moskes. There’s got to be some significance to that!

Well, in the low pressure of space, internal body pressure would make them explode! No need for vests.

Damien

July 4, 2010 at 12:11 am

Gary Rumain,

That’s also one of the reasons that we can be sure that the story about Muhammad splitting the Moon is utter nonsense. You’d instantly die in space without a spacesuit, but I guess the “scientific” people who followed Muhammad wouldn’t have known that.

What puzzles me is not the dollar total squandered upon this idiocy; that’s simply one of many similar insults to the long-suffering taxpayer.
The problem for me is finding an islamic scientific body to which to send the cheque.
Assignment: Search the literature and find a number of credible, peer-reviewed scientific papers published by moslems which excedes your shoe size.

So I assume the mosque not to have a loud-ass speaker blasting prayers 5 times a day due to vacuum space? And everyone has to put on those turbans inside space suits? Floating-in-the-air holy water?

The best part – Muslims pray to the direction of Mecca’s holiest site right? Well since the moon’s gonna roll round and round everyday, I bet everyone’s gonna scramble to find a “perfect” angle to pray

Allah’s Apostle said, “I have been sent with the shortest expressions bearing the widest meanings, and I have been made victorious with terror (cast in the hearts of the enemy), and while I was sleeping, the keys of the treasures of the world were brought to me and put in my hand.” Abu Huraira added: Allah’s Apostle has left the world and now you, people, are bringing out those treasures (i.e. the Prophet did not benefit by them).

The US being in Iraq does not mean that non-Muslims have to accept Islamic terrorism, or dominance.

my English is not very good, but if the word you care to it here is “terror”, its old meaning at that times is very different from what it is today. second, USA didn`t attacked the Iraq for the terrorism, that is Afghanistan, but it attacked the Iraq for the nuclear weapons. and nobody knows why just USA can hold a nuclear weapons! may be for it knows how to use these things carefully (unlike the stupid Arabs), such as Hiroshima bomb, you can see how it used that bomb for the humanity peace!

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YUSUFALI: Remember thy Lord inspired the angels (with the message): “I am with you: give firmness to the Believers:
I will instil terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them.”

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YUSUFALI:
This because they contended against Allah and His Messenger: If any contend against Allah and His Messenger, Allah is strict in punishment.

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YUSUFALI: Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies, of Allah and your enemies, and others besides, whom ye may not know, but whom Allah doth know. Whatever ye shall spend in the cause of Allah, shall be repaid unto you, and ye shall not be treated unjustly.

Muslims should not be trusted with nukes, and bombing Japan ended the war which the US did not start. I will continue to speak out against Islam, and you will not get the focus off of Islam. You are wasting your time here.

this is a big problem, people don`t know anything about the Koran hear some certain veres, and then think that they knows now what is the Koran and what it talks about. if you heared these veres alone, so of course it will be clear, but there is another veres before and after those explain everything.

because the words differ after the translation, i couldn`t recognize what is these veres, so give me the arabic veres or the Sura name and the numbers of veres, and i will give you the another veres which explains the meaning.

and other note, the meaning of “terrorism” in the old arabic is very diffrent from what it is now.

also, can i know why exactly do you hate the Islam? is that just for what so called “the terrorism”?

and no, i don`t wasting my time here. yes i will not get the humanity focus off of the Islam, but i can do this with person or two. you will not be of them, but they can be from the readers here. if someone reads this (even you) and he needs to think, may he will change his mind, but if he just needs to adopt the idea that the Islam is a terrorism religion, then he of course will not change his mind.

There is no problem here, I have read the Koran translated by Islamic scholar (of which you are not) Yousef Ali, the ahadith by Islamic scholars (of which you are not) Bukhari and Muslim, and an Islamic law manual approved by Al Azhar, the worlds highest Islamic learning school. So do not even attempt to tell me you know more about Islam than those scholars. It is very telling that you could not recognize those verses, considering the verse numbers were there. Yes, the verse after 8:12 expains it clearly. Muslims can terrorize those that contend against Islam. Do you know what contend means? To even argue against Islam…………. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/contend

I stand against Islam, because it discriminates against non-Muslims, and do not even begin to tell me it does not. You have proven NOTHING, and I will not go around in circles with you, so you will not use my site for your Islamic propanganda. Is that clear enough for you?

abbad

July 16, 2010 at 10:16 am

i don`t care if you don`t need to recognize this, but i need to say it. first, you gave me an English dictionary, and of course the meanings of words vary slightly from language to another. second, the meaning of veres is that “Muslims should to fight who fight them, not any unbelievers”. did you heard this veres before?

“Fight in the way of Allah against those who fight against you, but begin not hostilities. Lo! Allah loveth not aggressors”

Al-Twaba (Sura) 190 (veres). it is very clear: “those who fight against you”.

i am not using you site for “my Islamic propangand”, i am simply clearing a something i knows it because i am Muslim and i know Quran, but others heard a few veres may take unright idea about the Islam. simply, the Islam don`t tell us to fight all of the unbelievers. who so called “the terrorists” is just a sect of Muslims, and there is many sects in any religion. yes the terrorist thinks that any unbeliever should to be killed, but not all of Muslims thinks the same thing, and most of Muslims don`t think like the terrorists. there is even some sects of Christians thinks that all of Muslims should to die.

Good work on trying to get the focus of off the verses I posted. There are also other verses that show Islam to violent. Like 5:32. The translation was done by scholar Y. Ali, as I said you do not know Islam better than him. Other religions are not on worldwide movements looking to subjugate all under a barbaric set of religious laws, but Muslims are, and you only focusing on terrorism, shows that you are another game playing Muslim. This circular conversation has started, and just ended. You fool no one.

you said simply: “I stand against Islam, because it discriminates against non-Muslims”, and i gave you a veres says that the Muslims shouldn`t to fight who don`t fight them. and for the other veres you talked about, you didn`t gave me the Sura names, the Koran is divided into Sura and veres.

Try and pay attention this time.
1.Fighting or not, Islamic Law discriminates against non-Muslims, women, apostates, and homosexual. The verse you posted does not change this fact.
2. I know the Koran is divided into Sura and verses, that is why I post them.

You have failed here to disprove a thing I said, which means you have failed Allah.

1. do you mean that Muslims should to call to the peace while their enemies attacking them?

2. where is the Sura names?!

3. what is this “discriminate”? you don`t understand the Islam very good. there is a big debate about the killing of apostates, and there is no a clear veres or Hadith tells us to do that. and for the non-Muslims, what is the discriminate with them other than killing of them (which we talked about before)?

admin

July 19, 2010 at 8:11 am

One more time…
1. I never said that.
2. The number of the Sura is there. If you cannot figure that out I do not know what to tell you.
3. I understand Islam very well, non-Muslims have less rights than Muslims under Sharia. That is discrimination.

Volume 9, Book 84, Number 57:
Narrated ‘Ikrima:

What you fail to understand that you will have to kill me, as I will never live under Islamic Law.
Some Zanadiqa (atheists) were brought to ‘Ali and he burnt them. The news of this event, reached Ibn ‘Abbas who said, “If I had been in his place, I would not have burnt them, as Allah’s Apostle forbade it, saying, ‘Do not punish anybody with Allah’s punishment (fire).’ I would have killed them according to the statement of Allah’s Apostle, ‘Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.'”

admin

July 16, 2010 at 11:03 am

The bottom line is that Islam calls for the dominance, or death of non-Muslims. The West will defeat the Sharia movement!